Today I was in the Goettingen newspaper with an article about myself. I don't know what the article is about but I'm sure it was a good one. The writer who interviewed me didn't speak english so I'm sure he messed some things up but thats ok at least I got some ink out here in Germany.
Ernie Rama soll die Veilchen aufblühen lassen / Regionaler Sport / Sport / Nachrichten / Goettinger-Tageblatt.de
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Hey Ernie, google helps u out:
ReplyDeleteThe culture shock he had been overcome, insured Ernie Rama. From the gambling paradise Las Vegas, it has the 25-year-old American one week ago Südniedersächsische adrift in the province. "I love being in big cities like Vegas, or Seattle to live. There's a huge adjustment Gottingen, "he admits. He quickly but I learned to appreciate the virtues of small-town idyll. "I like the cozy downtown, especially the market place with the goose girl, the narrow streets and many old timbered houses - and I know the weather in Washington," he laughs with an angled view of the cloudy sky.
The team Erstregionalligisten BG 74 of 1.80 meters long basketball should provide fresh impetus to the playmaker position while coaching the junior violets in the new U-16-Bundesliga (JBBL) - as the successor of Peter Günschel bailed a few weeks ago. Has gained experience as a coach, Ernest Wayne Rama - so his full name - last season at the Las Vegas Hoops for which he stood as a player on the floor.
There has him MEG head coach John Patrick discovered in July when a try out for the Asian market for players. "Those who seek above all long-player, they themselves have enough guards," stated Patrick Rama and offer to come to Gottingen, adopted even though it was not like it easy, friend Catricia and his family for his first trip to Europe to leave. Ernie is the youngest of three brothers and nine sisters and the only one who plays basketball. "A brother of boxing, taekwondo and the other does," says Rama.
"Hard worker, good thrower"
From high school in his hometown of Vancouver, Washington, where he went with the former BGer Jeb Ivey ( "A good friend of mine") and MEG playmaker Taylor played together Rochestie, Rama at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. There he studied sports and health, and played five years for the Concordia Cavaliers.
His head coach Brad Barbarick described him as "strong thrower, good team player and hard worker," and these qualities also appreciates BG coach Hans-Werner Schmidt to Rama. "I need someone who gets the ball quickly and safely to the front, his teammates the best advantage, if necessary, but can also lock securely - and Ernie is just the right thing," Schmidt is convinced. "He is reliable, adaptable and focused entirely on basketball," says the coach.
His first try for the violets had Rama in test match at the Pro-B second division Spot Up Brunswick, BG lost the expected 74:89 (35:45). Here, the Americans indicated, inter alia, as the second best thrower behind Max Rosenberg already that it would be for the Schmidt team a real gain. Long-playing 40 minutes against the Ganzfeldpresse Brunswick had come, however, all BGer difficult to have failed. "We have sorely missed the injured Jacob Klimek. He could have put the offensive certain key points, "said BG coach .- Points BG: Rama (15), Welzel (10), Born (8), Wolf (7), Zienkiewicz (2), Schmidt (6) , Rosenberg (19), Both (5), Sharp (2).
(taken from goettinger tageblatt, local newspapaer, translated by google, written by M. Geisendörfer)